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An estimated 7000 students marched the CBD streets today with Mackay RSL Sub-branch President Ken Higgins claiming it as “one ...
(National Archives) World War II was marked by ... The U.S. Navy agreed. On Sept. 10, 1943, Adm. William Frederick Halsey awarded Moosbrugger the Navy Cross, which was also presented to Dunlap ...
The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...
Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a PB4Y-1 is shown circa 1944. (U.S. Navy) Of the many aircraft in which ...
Six rare World War Two medals awarded to a Lancaster Bomber pilot ... the CAF's 1944 Douglas R4D aircraft, Ready 4 Duty, a WWII Navy veteran itself. The aircraft will depart on April 24 as part ...
In the early months of World War II, several messages of admiration and ... to award Malta a unique mark of honour: the George Cross. This award, typically given to individuals for acts of ...
Billy Fiorelli is a 77-year-old Navy veteran who served his country in Jacksonville, Florida, during the Vietnam War from 1968-69. His tour of duty was cut short due to him contracting mumps and ...
Of the many aircraft in which airmen fought their way to receive the Medal of Honor ... targets en masse over Europe during World War II, the Navy’s “Privateer” flew patrols over the ...
Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles to the U.S. winning World War II in ... with his navy cross citation.
If you've been driving on Colorado highways you've probably noticed there's many different colored plate designs being ...